Mercer Porcelain Company

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In operation    1925-c.1946

Wares

ElectricalSanitary

Electrical porcelain & bathroom fixtures (Industrial Directory 1927)

Bathroom accessories (Industrial Directory 1931)

Electrical porcelain (Industrial Directory 1934)

Notes

This pottery was initially established by C.W. Donaghue in 1889 and made stilts and spurs. From 1904 until 1913 it was listed in the Trenton city directories as the Trenton Stilt Pin and Spur Works and in 1914 as the Pullen Porcelain Specialty Company. The pottery appears to have switched from the manufacture of kiln furniture to making electrical porcelain and sanitary ware in 1925 when it was taken over by the Mercer Porcelain Company.

Selected References

New Jersey Bureau of Statistics and Records, Department of Labor. 1927.  The Industrial Directory of New Jersey.  Trenton, New Jersey.

Harney, W.J. 1929. “Trenton’s First Potteries.” Sunday Times Advertiser, July 7, 14, 21 and 28, 1929.

New Jersey Bureau of Statistics and Records, State Department of Labor. 1931.  The Industrial Directory of New Jersey.  Trenton, New Jersey.

New Jersey Bureau of Statistics and Records, State Department of Labor. 1934.  The Industrial Directory of New Jersey.  Trenton, New Jersey.

Huston, Charles W. 1946.  Trenton, New Jersey City Directory.  Charles W. Huston, Trenton, New Jersey.

City of Trenton Tax Assessor Records. On file, Trenton Public Library, Trenton, New Jersey.

Other firms at this site:

Other Names

Mercer Porcelain Company

Block and Lot:
217C/2, 884-888

Historic Street Address:
Mulberry Street and Canal; corner of Mulberry Street and Pennsylvania Avenue; 457 Mulberry

Municipality:
City of Trenton

Map Gallery

Mercer Porcelain Company, 1927 Sanborn Map
Map References

Sanborn Map Company.  1927.  Insurance Maps of the City of Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey. Sanborn Map Company, New York, New York.  (Vol. 3, plate 452: shown as “Mercer Porcelain Co.”)

Franklin Survey Co.  1930.  Real Estate Plat‑Book of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey. Franklin Survey Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Plate 34: shown as “Mercer Porcelain Co.”)